A California judge overturned the decision allowing the anonymity of individuals to remain anonymous Net

A California judge in the Sixth of Appeals for the District of Santa Clara ruled last week that anonymity on the Internet trolls are allowed to remain anonymous. Along with the rest of anonymous trolls the Internet are able to say what he wants, for exercising their rights of the First Amendment, no matter how devalue.

According to Reuters, the appeals court overturned a 2006 decision that had been cited ten anonymous posters on Yahoo’s message board by the COO of a service company for drugs, Lisa Krinsky.

2006 The court held that the case ten anonymous message board posters left quite tough comments on the Internet about Krinsky, your company, and two officers at his company. One comment refers to Krinsky saying, “I will correspond felatoin [sic] with Lisa even though it has fat thighs, a false title of doctor, ‘queefs’ and has poor hygiene feminine.”

Doe 6, which is a label given to the anonymous posters, days later he moved into higher court set aside the subpoena. The defendant alleges that Krinsky has “not declared a demand sufficient to overcome their rights of the First Amendment, either defamation or interference with a contract or business relationship” and that his “request for provisional measures was an invalid prior restraint.”

In 2006, the Supreme Court suggested that the statements made by Doe 6 had the intention of lowering prices Krinsky of the company to manipulate the stock price. The court, even with the claim and the information, decided that Doe 6 was protected under the rights of the First Amendment. Because of the context of the statements, are not actionable under Florida laws against defamation.

The controversy over anonymity on the Internet will continue to be driven by contexts of defamation and First Amendment rights but would at least allow the contexts of these actions to be reduced.